• Constructing the future
  It’s so much easier to comment on today by going into tomorrow. It’s a Trojan-horse technique for slipping ideas past people. Then they don’t see them coming.
• Unearthing the past
  I’m interested in how we relate to technology, and I’m ...

Nerds. Once a tortured subrace of humans condemned to hiding in dark corners from the brutal hand of social torment … now captains of industry! The explosive popularity of the Internet, videogames, and smartphone technology has made this formerly feeble cluster of pasty virgins “cool.” But I was a nerd when it wasn’t a buzzword yet. I played tournament chess from fifth grade up into high school. (Ladies will be sexually aroused to know that I was the Memphis City Junior High Chess Champion of 19...